Five Year Update
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2021 11:03 am
Hey all
I've just gone over 5 years of Sync Licensing now - I posted an update last year here : four-year-update-t144067.html?hilit=yea ... r%20update
So I figured I should share where I am up to now a little over a year later :
2016 - 87 cues produced - 1 Library Deal - Total Earnings £0
2017 - 70 cues produced - 2 more Library Deals - Total Earnings - £50
2018 - 88 cues produced - 2 more Library Deals - Total Earnings - £120
2019 - 50 cues produced - 2 more Library Deals - Total Earnings - £720 ( mixture of Royalties - Sync Fees - Up front fees and blanket splits )
2020 - 100 cues produced ( extra time at home due to Covid meant more studio time ) - 3 more Library Deals - Total Earnings £ 700
10 Libraries in total
Although less than last year this is all backend whereas last year almost half of what I earned come up front in the form of consideration fees where they give you a small amount for each cue in advance. However to get those the Library took a cut of the writers backend which I'm not prepared to accept any longer so I've stopped supplying them with music ( just to be clear this was NOT a Taxi Library )
Total number of placements is now 50 from 380 cues in various Libraries ( this is up from 30 from 295 in 2019 )... some of the stuff from last year hasn't been released yet as they are holding a ton of stuff back due to the production companies being quieter because of Covid.
Some firsts this time around include :-
A placement from a cue in the same month it was published ..Submitted December 2020 - Released January 2021 - placed about 2 weeks later that month ( burbling synth arpeggio type thing ) on science-y covid section on a news/current affairs show.
Library owners contacting me personally and asking for music after hearing my stuff elsewhere
Attending a RR finally even if it's only virtual
Getting a warning from the Forum Admin
Having some of my feedback taken onboard by the Dev Team of my preferred DAW Cakewalk and implemented in an update
Some of the main placements are here if anyone wants to listen : https://soundcloud.com/user-45178330/se ... eard-on-tv
Thanks as ever to my friends @Andygabrys and @Telefunkin for humouring me and my terrible puns and endless mix revisions.
Mark
I've just gone over 5 years of Sync Licensing now - I posted an update last year here : four-year-update-t144067.html?hilit=yea ... r%20update
So I figured I should share where I am up to now a little over a year later :
2016 - 87 cues produced - 1 Library Deal - Total Earnings £0
2017 - 70 cues produced - 2 more Library Deals - Total Earnings - £50
2018 - 88 cues produced - 2 more Library Deals - Total Earnings - £120
2019 - 50 cues produced - 2 more Library Deals - Total Earnings - £720 ( mixture of Royalties - Sync Fees - Up front fees and blanket splits )
2020 - 100 cues produced ( extra time at home due to Covid meant more studio time ) - 3 more Library Deals - Total Earnings £ 700
10 Libraries in total
Although less than last year this is all backend whereas last year almost half of what I earned come up front in the form of consideration fees where they give you a small amount for each cue in advance. However to get those the Library took a cut of the writers backend which I'm not prepared to accept any longer so I've stopped supplying them with music ( just to be clear this was NOT a Taxi Library )
Total number of placements is now 50 from 380 cues in various Libraries ( this is up from 30 from 295 in 2019 )... some of the stuff from last year hasn't been released yet as they are holding a ton of stuff back due to the production companies being quieter because of Covid.
Some firsts this time around include :-
A placement from a cue in the same month it was published ..Submitted December 2020 - Released January 2021 - placed about 2 weeks later that month ( burbling synth arpeggio type thing ) on science-y covid section on a news/current affairs show.
Library owners contacting me personally and asking for music after hearing my stuff elsewhere
Attending a RR finally even if it's only virtual
Getting a warning from the Forum Admin
Having some of my feedback taken onboard by the Dev Team of my preferred DAW Cakewalk and implemented in an update
Some of the main placements are here if anyone wants to listen : https://soundcloud.com/user-45178330/se ... eard-on-tv
Thanks as ever to my friends @Andygabrys and @Telefunkin for humouring me and my terrible puns and endless mix revisions.
Mark